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Wednesday, 9 November 2011

L'argon & the jargon!

I live in a house with eight young french people.

Perfect for improving your all over french knowledge from best bars to cooking skills!

But naturally I have picked up some of the slang, bad habits, street verlan that surrounds me on a day-to-day basis. As always in the process of learning, I have made some rather humiliating mistakes along the way...

I feel another post exposition of 'faux-pas's coming along...

Scenario:
We're using my laptop to play music through the guitar amp, it's much too loud so one of my flat mates asks:

Vincent: " 'Azel, comment est-ce qu'on peut baisser le sens?"

Hazel: "Donne-moi une seconde et j'arrive pour baiser le sens."

This sentence is followed by a dramatic silence. The kind that makes you know something you've said is not quite what you had in mind...